Archive for December, 2011

This was a cap that Tony found on some very rotten wood on the Wander. It was gorgeous. When young it is a golden yellow, as its name suggests. With age it reddens and then browns. This pair of caps had got as far as the reddening stage but not all over. The cap surface had split slightly showing the under flesh, a light crackle roughly radially over the vivid surface. The yellow stem had reddened too, though this is not referred to in my books. The stem base was white-ish and sligthly broader.

These caps were growing on 24.11.2011. Small, neat caps, towards hemispherical in shape and then flatter and tending towards having a scalloped edge. The central stem was straight and the base had a ridge around the stem and a swelling below the ridge. The colour was cream, but then it was dry. If it had been damper it would have been a reddish brown. Growing on deciduous stumps of dead wood etc.